Wednesday, June 16, 2010

River News

The Friends of the Mississippi River have some updates that may be of interest to those of you with environmental concerns.

First of all, the Mississippi River Critical Area designations have been under review for a while. The draft plan is being presented for comment. This affects the Highwood Hills and a portion of the Battle Creek neighborhoods. For more information, check out this site.

Also, FMR did some comparisons between the BP gulf oil spill and what is flushed into the gulf from runoff in the Mississippi River basin. You can read more about the findings here.

No comments: